Science Policy: DOE Office of Science – Nuclear Physics – Jefferson Lab

Allison Lung January 14, 2018

One physicist’s path…..

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Allison Lung BFA, BS, PhD American University, Washington DC PhD Research @ Stanford Linear Accelerator: Electric and Magnetic Structure of Neutrons Postdoc @ Caltech: Quark-Gluon Structure of Hadrons Jefferson Lab for 20 years: Staff Scientist – Strange Quarks in Proton Assistant Director - Resource Planning Project Director, 12 GeV Upgrade ($338M over ~10 years) Chief Planning Officer, responsible for Budget and Strategic Planning

Department of Energy – Science Policy

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17 National Labs: 10 Office of Science (basic research), 7 Defense/Energy

Science Policy is about setting priorities Primary participants:

• Government (Federal, State, Local) • Research community (Univ., science orgs e.g. APS) • International partners • Public

Budget – Federal gov’t (President, Office of Mgt & Budget, Congress) Department of Energy ; Office of Science Programs: Nuclear ; High Energy ; Basic Energy etc Nuclear Science Advisory Committee – Long Range Plan Sets priorities for the field:

• Research Laboratory operations ; new facilities ; researcher support

FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS BENEFITS SOCIETY

THROUGH TECHNICAL INNOVATION

Health and Medicine:

• Accelerator-based radiotherapy for cancer

treatment: 10s of millions of patients treated per

year.

• > 50 medical isotopes produced for treatment and

diagnosis;

• Medical imaging technologies

General Electric Cyclotron for

PET isotope production

National Security:

• Accelerator based cargo

scanning and screening and

detection of nuclear materials

• Counter-terrorism, nuclear

forensics and incident response

Radioisotopes in industry:

• Sterilization, material qualification/inspection

• Oil well logging

Nuclear Energy:

Particle beams in industry:

• Manufacturing, sterilization,

semiconductor manufacturing, etc.

Varian Medical TrueBeam

System for radiotherapy

Your role in steering science policy……

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Be an educated citizen Champion science literacy at every opportunity

• Community service in your field • Conversations w/neighbors & friends • Fight against the “eye roll” when you say “I am a physicist”

• That’s too hard for me ; you are too smart for me……. • I am terrible at math…….

Make your science accessible & exciting to the public Undergraduate status – perfect time to start!

Medical Imaging

Technology

Fundamental

Forces & Symmetries

Z0

Theory & Computation

Nuclear Astrophysics

Nuclear Structure

Accelerator S&T

Structure of Hadrons

Jefferson Lab: A Laboratory For Nuclear Science

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Cryogenics